Light Quotes
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.George Eliot
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.John Milton
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.Alastair Reid
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.Albert Einstein
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.Edna Ferbe
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.Sir John Denham
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw
There are two kinds of light - - The glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.James Thurbe
The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fea.Psalm 27
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.Henry David Thoreau
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.E. L. Doctorow
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.Titus Livius
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.J. B. Priestley
There is no place more delightful than home.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.Mark Twain
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.George Orwell
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.English Prove
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.Henry Louis Mencken
Blessed are the cracked For they shall let in the light.Unknown
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light.Edna St. Vincent Millay
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.Kahlil Gibran
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy.Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.Doris Lessing
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.Unknown
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.Dag Hammarskjld
I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.Mohammed Daud Khan
What is to give light must endure burning.Dr. Viktor E Frankl
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.Albert Einstein
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.Lao Tzu
